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Osama escaped several times: French general's interview
PARIS, March 15: US-led forces in Afghanistan have nearly captured Osama bin Laden on several occasions, France's armed forces chief of staff said on Monday, adding that the Al Qaeda chief could be involved in the Madrid attacks. ... 
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Three US citizens killed in Iraq
MOSUL, March 15: Three US civilians were believed killed and two others wounded in a drive-by shooting in Iraq's northern city of Mosul late Monday, said coalition military sources, after earlier saying the dead were Iraqis. ...
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Bush asks Rumsfeld, Powell not to take part in campaign
NEW YORK, March 15: President George Bush has asked US Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld and the Secretary of State Colin Powell not to participate in the election campaign now full swing although elections are to be held in November. ...
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New distant 'planetoid' seen in solar system
WASHINGTON, March 15: A newly discovered dark and frigid world, a bit smaller than Pluto and three times farther away, has emerged as the most distant object in the solar system, astronomers said on Monday. ...
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Deft Chinese diplomacy
WASHINGTON: China denounces US trade policy as protectionist one day after the Bush administration threatens to take Beijing to the World Trade Organization for coddling its semiconductor industry. ...
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Muslims start losing faith in Labour
LONDON: Labour's share of the British Muslim vote has fallen by a half since the last general election because of the UK's role in the Iraq war, according to the results of a special Guardian/ICM poll published on Monday. ...
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Sharon rules out talks with Palestinians
AL QUDS, March 15: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared on Monday that he has no Palestinian partner in the peace process, as his forces turned the heat on militants after a twin suicide attack which killed 10 civilians. ...
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Europe-wide rail, metro alert after Madrid blasts
LONDON, March 15: From the Atlantic to the Urals, rail and metro networks were on high alert on Monday in a bid to avoid a repeat of last week's Madrid carnage, but police warned they faced a mammoth task protecting millions of passengers. ...
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West terms Russian polls undemocratic
MOSCOW, March 15: Russian President Vladimir Putin swept to four more years in the Kremlin on Monday after a runaway election triumph, but the party mood was soured by Western criticism the poll had been undemocratic. ...
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Spain's new priority is Europe, not US: ex-EU official
BRUSSELS, March 15: Spain's new priorities are to restore relations with core European allies, rethink its role in Iraq and leave strategic dialogue with the United States to the European Union, its likely future Socialist foreign minister said on Monday. ...
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Upset in Spain leaves UK, Italy isolated
MADRID: If Al Qaeda did mastermind Spain's bloodiest bomb attacks, its militants could claim to have caused a spectacular election upset in Madrid, but some analysts said the defeated government only had itself to blame. ...
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Space and the Great Wall of China
SINGAPORE: Now you see the Great Wall of China. Now you don't. Or perhaps the landscape is to blame. Or else someone is lying. Whatever the answer, the visibility - or lack thereof - of the thousands-of-miles-long monument from space ...
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